Susan Kiyo Ito with Faith Adiele / I Would Meet You Anywhere

Booksmith hosts Susan Kiyo Ito to celebrate her debut I Would Meet You Anywhere, in conversation with Faith Adiele on November 15, 2023.
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- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -
Susan Ito began reading at the age of three, and writing stories at the age six. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen,The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a MacDowell colony Fellow, and has also been awarded residencies at The Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook and the Blue Mountain Center. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater She is a member of the Writers’ Grotto, and teaches at Mills College/Northeastern University and Bay Path University. She was one of the co-organizers of Rooted and Written, a no-fee writing workshop for writers of color. She lives in Northern California. www.thesusanit...
Faith Adiele, The Original Obama, was raised by her Nordic-American mother and traveled to Nigeria as an adult to find her father and siblings, a journey documented in My Journey Home (PBS). She is author of tricultural chapbook, The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems, and Meeting Faith, an award-winning memoir about ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun. Co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology, Adiele writes a column for DETOUR / Miami Herald and Sleep Stories for the CALM app. A proud Oakland resident, she hosts African Book Club at MoAD and teaches at CCA and around the world, including some of the first workshops for racialized people in Finland. www.adiele.com/
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I just read your book Susan. Great read. I am adopted also. Born in 1965. Thank you for sharing your story.